Timeout and Deadline Propagation Failures in Long-Running Agent Tasks
Tools need explicit time budgets and cancellation signals that models cannot enforce alone.
Declan Ofoegbu
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Workflow Bugs
8 stories in Workflow Bugs.
Choosing an Agent Orchestration Framework for Production Reliability
Framework choice determines whether your production agents survive failure or collapse under load.
Priya Subramaniam
Parallelism Errors in Concurrent Agent Subtask Execution
Parallel tool execution exposes hidden dependencies that sequential ordering had quietly resolved.
Sofía Marchetti-Ríos
Branch Collapse in Conditional Agent Workflows
Architectural flaws, not reasoning gaps, cause agent workflows to collapse into failed branches.
Priya Subramaniam
Handoff Failures in Multi-Agent Orchestration Pipelines
Coordination failures in multi-agent systems hide in handoffs between agents, not inside them.
Declan Ofoegbu
State Leakage Between Turns in Stateful Agent Workflows
Root causes of agent failures live in the harness layer, not in prompts or models themselves.
Sofía Marchetti-Ríos
Premature Termination in Multi-Step Agent Tasks
When agents claim success without finishing the task, standard monitoring misses it completely.
Priya Subramaniam
Infinite Loop Detection in Agentic Orchestration Pipelines
Production traces reveal infinite loops in agent pipelines before users notice.
Sofía Marchetti-Ríos